If you click through to register, the following are listed as features:

    * Notification of API changes
    * Early access eligibility on select features
    * Eligibility for development licenses for GitHub products
    * GitHub profile membership badge

It sounds like it just puts your user into a special feature-flag bucket and gives you a badge, for now.

    * Eligibility for development licenses for GitHub products

Anyone have more details on this? The rest seem pretty clear.

It's the rightmost item on the landing page - you can contact GitHub staff and receive access to develop against their enterprise/standalone product (presumably a license to install a local instance for testing, although I guess they could have a test instance set up for you).

Licenses to develop for Github Enterprise Edition (also maybe Atom editor?)

It looks like a good source of information for developers working on products built on top of GitHub's API. (Like Gitpoints, http://gitpoints.com, in my case.)

Gitpoints looks like fun! Beta request sent.

same!

It's funny, this is exactly what I proposed at our company to make sure that tested code gets promoted. If the build fails, the dev loses points, and his next push requires a code review from another person who has more points.

This fell on deaf ears..

Nice use of gamification and programming. It's a good combined niche! Well found!

GitPoints sounds like it could potentially create even more stress at the workplace.

Hopefully not! We're trying hard to focus on making the whole team improve and learn and apply best practices, and not on pointing fingers at the last one in the leaderboard.

You have a point, though. We'll try to prove you wrong ;)

Looks really cool, but I can't give you write access to my (private) repos and not even read access to my private ones.

Program Benefits

    Notification of API changes
    Early access eligibility on select features
    Eligibility for development licenses for GitHub products
    GitHub profile membership badge